St. John Bosco Novena

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St. John Bosco, also known as St. Don Bosco, is famous for working with the youth.

St. John Bosco started the Salesian order which is the largest single religious order in the world today!

Here is our novena to St. John Bosco.

Novena Prayers:

Oh holy patron of the youth, I come to you with sincere confidence in your closeness to Jesus. Saint John Bosco, I need your help, I need your prayers, I need your intercession to God for His grace to help me with…

(state your intentions here)

With your love of Mary, our Mother, pray for me!

With your love for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, pray for me!

With your love for all those who suffer, pray for me!

Don Bosco, please pray fervently for the grace that I now ask from God our Father. In addition, please pray that I may have a sincere acceptance of the Will of God and a perfect trust in Him.

St. John please pray for my daughter Carly so she will make better choices regarding school and her personal life. Please pray that these new friends do not entice her to rebel and do harmful things to her body. Pray that she walks away from them and goes back to her boyfriend and her old friends who had better moral values and believed in god. Please pray for her.

St. John Norco please pray for my son’s that they may be covered with the blood of Jesus. Protect them from evil. Please pray especially for my younger son that he may come to know you and experience your will. Please prayer that he uses his leadership in good and become compliant with rules. Pray that he embraces his school life for the good and that he recognises that his studies are important for his growth.

Please pray for my daughter ,Madison, to do well in school. Help her to understand what she is learning and do well on her upcoming test and labs. She has always done exceptionally well in school but is struggling with a couple classes right now. She has always been a good and focused student and the stress and anxiety is really getting to her. She has not always had it easy but has always done the right thing. She deserves a little light in her life and a little happy.
Thank you
God Bless

Dear St John Bosco I have always walked thru your church since birth you have stood and protect my family from many struggles i thank you. Please continue your guidance on all of us from all enemies. My request today is for my Son T. Richard. He is an incredible young athlete very humble very respectful but his corners are plenty of jealousy please keep your throne of protection on my youth break all evil eyes all evil doers and sayers with the holy blood of Christ and bless him with the strength to win each of his matches and with my faith in you i declare that he will be the state Champion. Happy birthday St John Bosco. Thank you for all you do.

Please pray for my daughters aaliyah ,mia, felicitygrace that they be able to stay focus In their classwork and cathecism may they find courage and find away to do their homework and extra work because we are so poor that we live with people who are so distracting may we be removed of here and be put a place where we can focus on our lives with God and education. May I be able to pick a degree thaT will help me be close to my daughters while studying and close to them, may we succeed as parents and may my daughters as well please pray that they choose right decisions in their lives

John Boscos please pray for my daughter Motselisi Clara Liphoto for admission and consideration for funding, please send our sincere pledge to our Almighty God to bless her application and we appreciate everything God has provided for us, through christ our Lord and pray for blessing in our family and good health.

Saint Don Bosco, i beg you to beg our heavenly father to please send me a good and holy man of God to pursue me and be a faithdil hisband and father. I know that you cared for so many little boys in this life, i beg you to intercede and swnd me a husband so that we can jelp each other to heaven and raise godly sons and daughters. His will be done. Amen.

Please deliver Anthony from alcohol, from and the people with whom he goes to drink. I pray that St. Bosco delivers him straight to the Heart of Jesus, and that the Holy Spirit pours out His Love into Anthony. Dear St. Bosco, I join in praying for all the intentions prayed here, that you take our petitions with you to the Cross, to the Feet of Our Lord. Thank you!

Please pray that my 18 year old son opens his eyes and heart to me and the gifts and lessons I am trying to instill in/provide for him. He is stubbornly refusing any form of communication with me (and other adults) about his future college plans and limiting his future options.

Dear St John Bosco,
Please pray for my job in the education field- that I am placed by God in the one in which I can best serve Hum, take care of my finances and live a good and holy life-and the same for my husband . Please also pray for all of my children and God child to convert and live holy lives so they can go to Heaven. Thank you.

St John Bosco thank you for your intercession on behalf of my son. I come to you to pray that my son will be accepted by his dream university. He has been working very hard to be accepted into his dream university. Please intercede for him and my gratefulness will forever be yours. Amen.

St bosco please pray for jack to help him in school. He does not turn in his work. His twin may graduate high school. I pray that Jack will be with him. Pray also for his mom. For peace in their home. God bless all students

Dear St. John Bosco
I ask that you pray for my close friends who are drinking and hurting themselves by doing so. I am afraid that they will go down a path that will only take them further from Christ. Also that I may find what I am supposed to do with my life. I am graduating early and I do not know what I should go into for college. I am worried I will be stuck and not follow the plans of God. I will keep praying for my friends and the ability to stay close to God through my struggles. Thank you!

Dear St John Bosco,
Please pray that my son FL finds his career goal, meet a healthy and holy young woman and settle down in the apartment I am helping him to buy. Please teach him to stay away from pornography and to respect his body which is the temple of the Holy Spirit. Lastly, please implore Lord Jesus to grant him good physical, mental and spiritual health. Amen!

Dear St. John Bosco,
I need your intercession for my son Eoin who is drinking, smoking, cursing, doesn’t do his chores and is sometimes very aggressive and sometimes refuses to go to school. He has a kind heart and has lost his way. Please help him mature and take the right path.
Please give me the patience and strength to help him through this challenging time.
Thank you and God bless

Dear holy patron of the youth I come to you with my love & confidence in you. I need your help & prayers for my son Lorenzo he is due to graduate a June 2018, but he’s falling behind & is now wanting to stop going to school. Please help me guide him to graduate to lead the right path. Also please pray for me to have the strength & knowledge to steer him in the right direction. Thank you. Thank you all may God bless us all.

Dear lord please keep my kids Julian in your prayers he is very depressed and He is worried about school.I prayer and hope Julian gets into the college he wants to next year and the last six months of school won’t be hard for him.I want to see my son graduate in May of 2018 I just want everything to be better and easy on him.
Thank you Lord amen

We pray for our son Peyton to see the importance of his education. He is struggling to wake up and go to school and be on time. He doesn’t want to go and we argue every morning. His grades are not good. Too much bad outside influence is fearing. St. John Bosco, we pray for his improvement in the very near future. He has to do better.

St John Bosco
I pray fervently for your intercession to God for his grace in bestowing the educational path for my son that he is most deserving and desiring. We need your help we need your prayers. Please pray that we will have a sincere acceptance of the will of God.

St John Bosco thank you for your intercession on behalf of my daughter. I come to you once again to pray that my daughter will be accepted by her dream university ED this December. She has been working very hard to be accepted into her dream university. Please intercede for her and my gratefulness will forever be yours. Amen.

St. John Bosco, I will be taking my college entrance tests this year and I am asking for your help to guide me while answering. This is for my future and I don’t want to disappoint my parents, they’re doing their best for me to have the best education possible for this is the greatest gift a parent can give to their child. Getting accepted in my dream university will help me and my parents in the future. Please help me as I take my first entrance test this month and for my following entrance tests. Please guide me in the right path. Amen.

Please St. John Bosco pray for Alyssa and Dalilah and her family. Please help to bring these kids closer to us and to GOD. Please help them get on the right path. Amen. Thank you for listening. In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.

Please pray and intercede for my two children starting a new school in a new state. Please pray for help with adjust quickly and make new friends. Please pray that the Lord helps my son thru this difficult time. He is having trouble adjusting. Please be by his side helping him through this time.

I would like to testify that St John Bosco’s Novena really helped me go through the difficult moment I had with my study Visa. I prayed with confidence to him and he helped me to get my application for an extension of days to complete my studies. I went through the process hustle free, and I am happy to announce that I have never seen the grace of God work so much in my life, After that encounter with His grace, I don’t think I will turn around and go back to the lie of a life I was living. I am grateful for St John Bosco’s intercession in my time of need. Amen and thank you Lord.

Please pray and intercede for my 17 year old niece, Kaitlyn. She is normally a very kind and considerate person. But lately she has been hanging out n drinking and smoking pot. When she does drink she turns into angry person and is very nasty, she curses out her mother and treats her with no respect whatsoever. I feel like a demon comes out in her and I can feel the Evil around her. Please pray that she stops drinking n whatever else she maybe doing. Thank You

Please St.John Bosco. I praying for
My son Joshua an my girls Sammatha , Katie. That there college education money comes in too them an make themselves great
People an Students. An great careers of they learn in college
Thank you
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I pray for your intercession for my 13 year old daughter that she develops strong and healthy friendships. She has experienced difficulties at school with cliques the past two years and often feels alone and rejected. Help her to gain confidence in herself that she is worthy and to be open to new friendships. Help her to be a good friend to others herself.

Please pray for confidence for my son to take the practise MCAT tests and blessings of double triple scores so that he will have confidence to take finals in June without any more delays. Bless for this miracle of a seat in a good medical school this year with no more delays so that I will have a time here to come back with my testimony and thanskgiving this year, Amen. Its been a long and tiring road for me and my son, so please have mercy and pity and bless with this favor soon. Amen.

A few years ago I found this website and said a novena along with the website. It just so happened that I stumbled upon it the day the novena began. Very good timing. My birthday is on January 31 and St. John Bosco is my patron saint. My son had a concussion and I was praying for his health. His health did not get better, but on my birthday a very good thing happened in school which helped him to graduate. He is still very sick, sicker than ever and a lot of time has passed, but I want to thank the Lord and St. John Bosco for this.

Please pray for my two 6 year old grand sons. They are very bad cursing & getting suspended from school. I have never encountered anything like this & as Their grandmother I want to help to give them help & give my daughter & her husband the help to deal with such behavior. Please pray for all of them

Please pray for my adult son to be healed from the pains of his youth & me. He has multiple addictions. Did not have a Catholic education. Was raised by the streets, like me, & grandparents. He is married with children. A very loving daddy. Please pray for his health, freedom from addictions and pain from abandonment when I broke up with his father. Healing from the break up. Healing from losing his first child, my first grandchild to abortion. Please pray for my grandchildren. They will be attending public schools. I am no good. I’m brokenhearted from my past. It was heartbreaking/broken. Lord have mercy. Pray for us poor sinners. In Jesus name, Amen.

I will be praying for you. Your words touch me. I do not know if you’ll read this, but please know that The Lord loves you. He died on the cross just for you. If you were the only person on earth, he would have still died on a cross for you. God created you good. You are good. You are buetuful. Please, look into Rachels Vineyard for post abortion counsoling and read up on Divine Mercy.

please Don Bosco pray for my son John who has been watching pornography , for him to stop and for me to help him in any way possible, for him to follow Gods will for him and to find good friends, for us to make the best decision for his education but most all for all those images to be erased from him please pray for him
Amen

Saint Bosco, bless All the youth of Kenya and may they find gainful employment matching their qualifications to better their lives. May they vote wisely in the upcoming August, 2017 general elections. May the youth of this country never be used as weapons of mass destruction ever again bit maybtheir energies,skill and brain power be used to transform Kenya.

I am running for a parliamentary seat in Kibwezi West Constituency, Makueni County. please Saint Bosco, intervene for me to the Lord that He may grant me victory in the August 8.8.2017 general elections in accordance with His will.

Please intercede on my behalf and ask the Lord to grant me an acceptance into DU. 8 denial letters later, and this is my last shot. I’m forever grateful and undeserving of all his love and blessings, but just need help with this one last thing. It’s only possible thru Him.
Amen

Dear St Don Bosco
please pray for Kristina that she could be accepted into villa high school and receive financial assistance, she is a very dedicated student who wants to remain in a Catholic school, we do not have the means to pay for this school, but with God everything is possible, I know this school has been my daughters dream, I pray that she gets accepted this week.
Amen

Dear Saint John Bosco, please hear me in this novena in your honor that I just started today February 17; my petition is that my youngest son be healed of body, mind and soul, that he and his wife may turn to the Lord, reconcile with Him and with each other, and rise their little boy a good Christian. Saint John Bosco, you always protected my son from so many dangers as a teenager, please continue to do so now, in middle age, for he is in great need…commend him to the Lord, commend him to Our Lady Help of Christians, please. Amen.

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